Fulham vs Manchester City LIVE: Stream, team news and latest updates from the Premier League

Manchester City are 14 games from a potential quadruple, with a League Cup already in the bag and the FA Cup opening up beautifully.

Pep Guardiola has encouraged his side to enjoy the position they are in:

It is Kick It Out’s Week of Action, with the group celebrating 25 years of fighting for equality in football. Both sets of players are adorned in shirts sporting the organisation’s logo, and given the high-profile and rather worrying events in Montenegro, it’s an important gesture. There is still so, so much more work to do, sadly.

It’s been a baptism of fire for Scott Parker at the helm in West London, Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool and now Manchester City his first four Premier League opponents.

That’s quite a step up for a manager light on experience, particularly given he’s seen two head coach go already this season.

Parker was so much more than the battler some suggest he was in his playing career, but his spirit and fighting quality are far from bad things in Fulham’s current predicament. 

It looks like it may be a five-at-the-back this afternoon, with that front three designed to catch an over-confident City out with pace over the top. 

So, to the title race.

Manchester City are two points behind Liverpool and will have their eyes on usurping their rivals this afternoon, particularly with Tottenham, a common opponent in these closing stages, the tricky visitors to Anfield tomorrow afternoon.

With a look at the ins-and-outs of managing a title race, it’s Miguel Delaney:

Quite appropriately, Sergio Aguero checked in at number ten in our countdown, sandwiched (or should that be baguette-ed) between Eric Cantona and Patrick Vieira. Haute company.

Jack Pitt-Brooke illustrates the Argentine’s brilliance:

It has been a busy week for The Independent‘s football team with the naming of our Premier League 100, a definitive (note: not definitive) ranking of the best players England has seen since the league’s inception.

There was controversy throughout, not least in the egregious omission of Savio Nsereko, but it was, crucially in these current times, democratic, with equal weight given to each voter.

And thus it was decided, much to Chief Football Writer Miguel Delaney‘s chagrin, that the transformative Thierry Henry is the greatest footballer to ever play in the Premier League.

​Jonathan Liew was tasked with explaining why, and he did so in typically fine fashion:

Team News – Manchester City

The international break was something of a boon for Pep Guardiola as his squad now close to full strength. Kevin De Bruyne returns in midfield and England’s star Raheem Sterling will look to continue his fine form against a shaky Fulham defence.

And, well, just take a look at that bench…

Team News – Fulham

Fulham’s rotating door policy on selection continues. Scott Parker names a side without a recognised striker, Aleksandar Mitrovic the notable absentee with Ryan Sessegnon, Floyd Ayite and Ryan Babel a speedy triumvirate leading the line.

The international break was, all things considered, a rather entertaining one, with England in scintillating form and minnows Scotland creeping past the mighty San Marino.

But it’s high time to get back to the Premier League, and the first team news of the weekend is in…

Welcome back.

After a brief international interlude, the Premier League returns, and as we enter the home straight proceedings could not be more interesting. 

There’s a battle at the bottom, a mid-table scramble, a top-four tussle and, most excitingly, a proper title race afoot, and it is at the top the weekend starts.

Manchester City are at Craven Cottage seeking a win that would take them back to the top of the table, and we’ll have all the action LIVE right here…